Book Review: Öffentlicher Verkehr im Gewährleistungsstaat. Der ÖPNV zwischen Regulierung und Wettbewerb, Das Logistikunternehmen Dachser. Die treibende Kraft der Familie als Erfolgsfaktor im globalen Wettbewerb (The logistics firm of Dachser: The Driving Force of the Family in Global Competition, TST: Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunicaciones, revista de historia (Transport, Services and Telecommunications: Journal of History), Der direkte Weg in den Süden. Die Geschichte der Gotthardbahn (The Direct Route to the South: History of the Gotthard Railway), Une ligne à travers les montagnes: La première compagnie de chemin de fer du Locle à Neuchâtel, le Jura industriel 1857–1865 (A line through the mountains: The First Railway Company of Locle in Neuchâtel: The industrial Jura, 1857–1865), Storia delle prime autostrade italiane 1922–1943: Modernizzazione, affari e propaganda, Politikberatung durch Experten. Das Beispiel der deutschen Verkehrspolitik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Policy advice from experts: The example of Germany's transport policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), Deutsches Museum, Beiträge zur Historischen Verkehrsforschung 8 (German Museum, Contributions to Historical Transport Research), Highway Construction in Hesse up to 1943, Contributions to Hessian Economic History 1 (Autobahnbau in Hessen bis 1943, Beiträge zur hessischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte Bd. 1), Bridges, Buildings and Black Beauties of Northern Railway: Glimpses on the Rich Heritage of India's Premier Railway, Modernisierung durch Beschleunigung. Raum und Mobilität im Zarenreich (Modernisation through Acceleration: Space and Mobility in the Czarist Empire)

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-114
Author(s):  
Gerold Ambrosius ◽  
Richard Vahrenkamp ◽  
Rodrigo Booth ◽  
Günter Dinhobl ◽  
Andrea Giuntini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Railway Company ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Deutsches Museum

scholarly journals Book Review: History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Trent Shotwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
African American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots by Thomas J. Davis chronicles the remarkable past of African Americans from the earliest arrival of their ancestors to the election of President Barack Obama. This work was produced to recognize every triumph and tragedy that separates African Americans as a group from others in America. By distinguishing the rich and unique history of African Americans, History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots provides an account of inspiration, courage, and progress. Each chapter details a significant piece of African American history, and the book includes numerous concise portraits of prominent African Americans and their contributions to progressing social life in the United States.

The Catholic Recusancy of the Yorkshire Fairfaxes. Part I.

1956 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 68-114
Author(s):  
Hugh Aveling
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Landed Gentry

In the middle ages the Fairfaxes ranked amongst the minor landed gentry of Yorkshire. They seem to have risen to this status in the thirteenth century, partly by buying land out of the profits of trade in York, partly by successful marriages. But they remained of little importance until the later fifteenth century. They had, by then, produced no more than a series of bailiffs of York, a treasurer of York Minster and one knight of the shire. The head of the family was not normally a knight. The family property consisted of the two manors of Walton and Acaster Malbis and house property in York. But in the later fifteenth century and onwards the fortunes of the family were in the ascendant and they began a process of quite conscious social climbing. At the same time they began to increase considerably in numbers. The three main branches, with al1 their cadet lines, were fixed by the middle of the sixteenth century – the senior branch, Fairfax of Walton and Gilling, the second branch, Fairfax of Denton, Nunappleton, Bilhorough and Newton Kyme, the third branch, Fairfax of Steeton. It is very important for any attempt to assess the strength and nature of Catholicism in Yorkshire to try to understand the strong family – almost clan – unity of these pushing, rising families. While adherence to Catholicism could be primarily a personal choice in the face of family ties and property interests, the history of the Faith in Yorkshire was conditioned greatly at every point by the strength of those ties and interests. The minute genealogy and economic history of the gentry has therefore a very direct bearing on recusant history.

Lucian as Social Satirist

1961 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Dio Chrysostom ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practical Politics ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Actual Participation

This paper owes its inspiration to a remark made by Professor M. Rostovtzeff; in a note in his Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire on the widespread social unrest of the first two centuries A.D., having cited other literary authorities such as Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides, etc., he writes: ‘The social problem as such, the cleavage between the poor and the rich, occupies a prominent place in the dialogues of Lucian; he was fully aware of the importance of the problem.’ No one, as far as I know, has attempted to collect and discuss the main passages in Lucian on this topic, and the latest writer on this aspect of Lucian reaches a conclusion quite opposed to Rostovtzeff and one which I believe to be wholly misleading. The aim of this paper is to collect and discuss the main references in Lucian to the social problem interpreting them in the light of Lucian's life and background, and the social and economic conditions of his age. In particular I shall stress the importance of the Cynic tradition as it bears on Lucian's attitude, but shall endeavour to show that this tradition is firmly rooted in practical politics and actual participation in social revolutionary movements and goes far beyond the repetition of mere ethical cliches generally ascribed to it.

The Wood-Beach at Recife: A Contribution to the Economic History of Brazil

1949 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 209-233
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Red Dye

The cutting and shipment of wood is one of the oldest and most important aspects of Brazilian trade with Portugal. The rich red dye produced from the tree called pau brasil or Brazil wood was esteemed so highly that at first it outweighed in importance all other products of the colony. Most historians agree that the very name of Brazil is derived from this wood. Guarded as a royal monopoly throughout the colonial period, the wood trade ranked with the sugar, tobacco and gold of Brazil as one of the principal sources of revenue of the Portuguese crown. When woods for building were added to the exportation of pau brasil, the trade assumed a new importance, for these woods furnished the mother country with the sinews both of war and commerce, providing the hulls and masts of countless vessels that defended and brought together the distant domains of the Portuguese empire.

The Wood-Beach at Recife: A Contribution to the Economic History of Brazil

1949 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-233
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Red Dye

The cutting and shipment of wood is one of the oldest and most important aspects of Brazilian trade with Portugal. The rich red dye produced from the tree called pau brasil or Brazil wood was esteemed so highly that at first it outweighed in importance all other products of the colony. Most historians agree that the very name of Brazil is derived from this wood. Guarded as a royal monopoly throughout the colonial period, the wood trade ranked with the sugar, tobacco and gold of Brazil as one of the principal sources of revenue of the Portuguese crown. When woods for building were added to the exportation of pau brasil, the trade assumed a new importance, for these woods furnished the mother country with the sinews both of war and commerce, providing the hulls and masts of countless vessels that defended and brought together the distant domains of the Portuguese empire.

American Fatherhood

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Martschukat
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
First Century ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Family Constellation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Moral Leader ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
American Society

This book explains the unbending ideal of the nuclear family and how it has seeped so deeply into American society and consciousness without ever becoming the actual norm for most people in the nation. It presents the rich diversity of family lives in American history from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century and at the same time the persistence and normative power of the nuclear family model. American society—one of the major arguments—is “governed through the family,” and to govern, in this sense, is “to structure the possible field of action.” To make this broad examination of the discourse and practice of the family in American life more accessible, this book focuses on the relations of fathers, families, and society. Throughout American history “the father” has been posed as provider and moral leader of his family, American society, and the nation. At the same time power and difference were established around “the father,” and fatherhood meant many different things for different people. To tell this history of fatherhood, families, and American society, the author presents biographical “close-ups” of twelve iconic characters, embedded in contextual “long shots” so that readers can see the enduring power of the family and father ideals along with the complexity and varieties of everyday life in American history. Each protagonist covers a crucial period or event in American history, presents a different family constellation, and makes a different argument with regard to how American society is governed through the family.

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